Are you getting ready to embark on your first ever trip, or are you preparing to head out on your second, third or one-hundredth world adventure? You’ve come to the right place. On this page you’ll find all of the information that you need for saving, budgeting and packing for your next big travel experience.
Planning
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Airbnb Coupon Code 2021 – Up To $55 Airbnb Discount
Airbnb Coupon Code 2021 – Up To $55 Airbnb DiscountAirbnb Coupon 2021You must log-out of any Airbnb account on your device before clicking the button below. You will have...READ MORE -
7 Best Ways To Provide Proof Of Onward Travel
7 Best Ways To Provide Proof Of Onward TravelAn ever-growing number of countries around the world are now requesting proof of onward travel for all visitors entering...READ MORE -
Trusted Traveler Programs: How To Decide Which is Right For You
Trusted Traveler Programs: How To Decide Which is Right For YouThe United States Department of Homeland Security offers five Trusted Traveler Programs to speed up the process through...READ MORE -
How To Get Working Holiday Visas Worldwide: The Complete Guide
How To Get Working Holiday Visas Worldwide: The Complete GuideIt’s five o’ clock, and you’ve just finished working for the day. You head towards the sun-soaked shor...READ MORE -
Best International Travel Insurance For Travellers & Digital Nomads
Best International Travel Insurance For Travellers & Digital NomadsUnless you don’t mind shelling out thousands of dollars if (when?) you get in an accident while travelling, having...READ MORE -
Top 10 Unique Airbnb Rentals Around The World
Top 10 Unique Airbnb Rentals Around The WorldSince Airbnb was founded in San Fransisco in 2008, people have been taking advantage of Airbnb rentals all around t...READ MORE -
50 Visa Free Countries For Travellers & Digital Nomads
50 Visa Free Countries For Travellers & Digital NomadsThis is the ultimate list of visa free countries for backpackers, travellers, digital nomads and remote workers. I...READ MORE -
Periods, Pills & Paps – How To Handle Female Health When Travelling
Periods, Pills & Paps – How To Handle Female Health When TravellingI’ve been travelling and living abroad now for eight years. I’ve visited overseas doctors, purchased numerou...READ MORE -
5 Fateful Tales – Nick’s Absolute Worst Travel Sicknesses
5 Fateful Tales – Nick’s Absolute Worst Travel SicknessesAs the motorbike careened down the dirt paths of backcountry Malawi, my head pounded. It was as if I could feel my swoll...READ MORE -
How to Choose the Best Backpack for Travel
How to Choose the Best Backpack for TravelWhen travelling the world, your backpack will be your best friend. But, choose the wrong pack, and it could end up being...READ MORE -
How To Quit Your Job & Travel: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide
How To Quit Your Job & Travel: The Ultimate Beginner’s GuideHow do I quit my job and travel forever? How can I possibly save enough money for travel? What are the regulations about...READ MORE -
Travel Advice For Beginners: a Guide to Airports, Documents & Flying
Travel Advice For Beginners: a Guide to Airports, Documents & FlyingThere are numerous things to think about when planning to go on a trip. It may sound simple enough – book a f...READ MORE -
5 Reasons Why You Should Use a VPN While Travelling
5 Reasons Why You Should Use a VPN While TravellingAs digital nomads, we’re constantly on the go and find ourselves stamping in to at least 10 different countri...READ MORE -
How To Travel The World When You Have Absolutely No Money
How To Travel The World When You Have Absolutely No MoneyYou don’t have to be rich to travel. In fact, if you’re extremely savvy in your approach, you can trave...READ MORE
Packing
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Best Equipment For Vlogging (Our Kit & How We Pack It)
Best Equipment For Vlogging (Our Kit & How We Pack It)In this post, I’m going to share with you the best equipment for vlogging. This is the gear we personally use or p...READ MORE -
12 Unique Gifts For Travel Lovers (2021 Guide)
12 Unique Gifts For Travel Lovers (2021 Guide)Finding unique gifts for travel lovers can be a daunting task. Not only do you need to find a gift that they’ll li...READ MORE -
20 Essential Travel Items Everyone Should Pack
20 Essential Travel Items Everyone Should PackEvery year there are new travel gadgets and gear upgrades coming on the market. A quick “travel” search on A...READ MORE -
Best Travel Backpacks of 2020: The Ultimate Buyer’s Guide
Best Travel Backpacks of 2020: The Ultimate Buyer’s GuideFinding the best travel backpack can be a daunting task. There are hundreds of backpacks to choose from and not all of t...READ MORE -
8 Cool Gadgets to Charge Your Electronics While Travelling
8 Cool Gadgets to Charge Your Electronics While TravellingAs the old saying goes: “never forget your A-B-C’s” (Always Be Charging). Whether you’re a digit...READ MORE -
The Ultimate Packing List for Full-Time Travellers
The Ultimate Packing List for Full-Time TravellersIt’s one thing to pack your backpack and set off on a trip to a specific destination, or one region of the world,...READ MORE -
How to Choose the Best Backpack for Travel
How to Choose the Best Backpack for TravelWhen travelling the world, your backpack will be your best friend. But, choose the wrong pack, and it could end up being...READ MORE -
7 Budget-Saving Items All Travellers Should Have
7 Budget-Saving Items All Travellers Should HaveThese days, more than ever, people want to save money wherever possible. Travel can be an expensive hobby, but luckily,...READ MORE -
Travelling With A Drone: How We Carry It, What it Costs, The Cons & The Pay-offs
Travelling With A Drone: How We Carry It, What it Costs, The Cons & The Pay-offsAs you know from our YouTube channel, we’ve been travelling with a drone for a few months now. The drone definitel...READ MORE -
Living With Less, But Having More
Living With Less, But Having MoreAs we packed up our lives in Grenada to set off on our next adventure, we became very aware of just how few possessions...READ MORE -
Backpack Review: Osprey Farpoint 55L (2017 Update)
Backpack Review: Osprey Farpoint 55L (2017 Update)Today I’ll be reviewing my current backpack, the Osprey Farpoint 55L. I’ve taken this pack on enough treks n...READ MORE -
Backpack Review: Osprey Kestrel 32
Backpack Review: Osprey Kestrel 32It’s time to review my current backpack, the Osprey Kestrel 32. Having a backpack that fits properly and is geared...READ MORE -
What To Pack For A Camping and Trekking Trip
What To Pack For A Camping and Trekking TripSince upgrading our backpacks and joining the ultralight world of backpacking and travel, we’ve also changed our p...READ MORE -
Ultralight Travel: Revamping Our Backpacking Gear
Ultralight Travel: Revamping Our Backpacking GearDuring our previous trips around the world, we have traveled with a Deuter Traveler 70L Backpack (Nick’s) and a ME...READ MORE -
Travel Essentials For Men: The Complete Packing List
Travel Essentials For Men: The Complete Packing ListWe’ve written about what the ultimate packing list for full-time travellers, we’ve given a breakdown of what...READ MORE
Saving & Budgeting
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15 Simple Money Saving Tips Anyone Can Use
15 Simple Money Saving Tips Anyone Can UseDo you want to travel more? Save money to move abroad? Pay down your debt? Have a nest egg so you can start your own bus...READ MORE -
How To Make Money From Home: 21 Lucrative Side Hustles
How To Make Money From Home: 21 Lucrative Side HustlesTrying to figure out how to make money from home isn’t easy. If it were, hardly anyone would choose to wake up to...READ MORE -
7 Tips To Save $15,000 For Travel in Just One Year
7 Tips To Save $15,000 For Travel in Just One YearSaving money isn’t always easy, but even if you think that you can’t save a penny, you probably can. All you...READ MORE -
How To Travel The World For a Year On Just $5,000
How To Travel The World For a Year On Just $5,000Back in 2008 when we quit our jobs and started travelling full-time, we saved around $30,000 USD between us because we w...READ MORE -
Travel Hacking for Beginners: A Guide to Saving Thousands on Travel
Travel Hacking for Beginners: A Guide to Saving Thousands on TravelIn February of 2014 I flew from South Florida to Hong Kong on United Airlines (don’t worry, I didn’t get dra...READ MORE -
How We Saved $40,000 For a Year of Travel
How We Saved $40,000 For a Year of TravelWe are constantly asked how we saved enough money to travel, which is a legitimate question! We were recently featu...READ MORE -
7 Budget-Saving Items All Travellers Should Have
7 Budget-Saving Items All Travellers Should HaveThese days, more than ever, people want to save money wherever possible. Travel can be an expensive hobby, but luckily,...READ MORE -
Our Location Independent Lifestyle: What Does It Cost?
Our Location Independent Lifestyle: What Does It Cost?Before going into detail about how much our lifestyle costs us each month, it’s probably a good idea to talk about...READ MORE -
How To Travel The World When You Have Absolutely No Money
How To Travel The World When You Have Absolutely No MoneyYou don’t have to be rich to travel. In fact, if you’re extremely savvy in your approach, you can trave...READ MORE -
Medical Tourism: What it is, and Why You Should Utilize it
Medical Tourism: What it is, and Why You Should Utilize itWhat is medical tourism? “Medical Tourism is a growing concept worldwide where people travel to another country fo...READ MORE -
How To Travel Anywhere For Less Than $100 A Week!
How To Travel Anywhere For Less Than $100 A Week!This article is by our friend Will over at TheBrokeBackpacker.com, an awesome website dedicated to budget travel an...READ MORE -
10 Travel Tips For Saving Money
10 Travel Tips For Saving MoneyThere are loads of tips for saving money while travelling. We’ve extended our trips 2-3 months longer in the past by fol...READ MORE -
Our Daily Budget For Every Country We’ve Visited
Our Daily Budget For Every Country We’ve VisitedWe’ve travelled through 35 countries and kept to a very typical backpacker budget in all places. We thought we...READ MORE
Inspiration
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25 New Year’s Resolution Ideas For 2022
25 New Year’s Resolution Ideas For 2022What do you want to accomplish this year? What are your dreams, goals, desires? For the most part, when people are think...READ MORE -
How We Achieved Location Independence: Our Personal Journey
How We Achieved Location Independence: Our Personal JourneyWe’ve written a lot of articles on this blog about travel jobs, how to get paid to travel, where to find remote wo...READ MORE -
What We’ve Learned and Accomplished From 10 Years On The Road
What We’ve Learned and Accomplished From 10 Years On The RoadTen years ago we packed up our backpacks, said goodbye to friends and family and hit the road for a little over a year....READ MORE -
Moving, Living and Working Abroad: Answering Your Top FAQ’s
Moving, Living and Working Abroad: Answering Your Top FAQ’sTime is the most important thing in life. In North America, we’re taught that you work hard until you’re aro...READ MORE -
How Travel Blogging Changed Our Lives: Our Journey to Financial Freedom
How Travel Blogging Changed Our Lives: Our Journey to Financial FreedomI’m writing this article from a beautiful bungalow that’s situated a stone’s throw away from a beautif...READ MORE -
Making Money On The Road: An Inspirational Interview With The Motoroamers
Making Money On The Road: An Inspirational Interview With The MotoroamersDo you want to travel the world, but aren’t sure how to get paid to travel? In this article we have an inspirational int...READ MORE -
Why This UK Couple is Still Travelling in Their Mid-Thirties
Why This UK Couple is Still Travelling in Their Mid-ThirtiesWhen we first went travelling together all the way back in 2005, it was the thing to do at that time in our lives. We ha...READ MORE -
5 Trips and Experiences We’ve Been Dreaming Of
5 Trips and Experiences We’ve Been Dreaming OfDuring our 8 years of travel, we’ve seen some mesmerizing sights, met some wonderful people and had some...READ MORE -
How To Quit Your Job & Travel: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide
How To Quit Your Job & Travel: The Ultimate Beginner’s GuideHow do I quit my job and travel forever? How can I possibly save enough money for travel? What are the regulations about...READ MORE -
16 Epic Adventures To Have in 2016
16 Epic Adventures To Have in 2016The new year is just around the corner, and if you’re a culture-crazed, food-freak, adventure-junky, travel-lover...READ MORE -
Personal Legends: The Roadmaps to Happiness
Personal Legends: The Roadmaps to HappinessLife is all about personal growth and evolution. If we remain stagnant for too long, both physically, and emotionally, h...READ MORE -
How To Travel The World When You Have Absolutely No Money
How To Travel The World When You Have Absolutely No MoneyYou don’t have to be rich to travel. In fact, if you’re extremely savvy in your approach, you can trave...READ MORE -
Taking The Leap Into A Life Without Chores
Taking The Leap Into A Life Without ChoresWhen I look back at my existence before I left Canada to pursue this dream of travel & adventure, I see a life full...READ MORE -
27 Inspiring Photos That Will Motivate You to Become a Digital Nomad Today
27 Inspiring Photos That Will Motivate You to Become a Digital Nomad TodayThere are photo stories published every day on the internet. Most are full of fascinating pictures that make you want to...READ MORE -
How To Make Money and Travel The World As a Divemaster
How To Make Money and Travel The World As a DivemasterThis is a guest post from the adventurous Sarah over at Coffee With a Slice of Life. We’re stoked that she wanted...READ MORE
Travel Tips
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Digital Nomad Guide to Living in Bariloche
Digital Nomad Guide to Living in BarilocheIn this complete guide, you’ll learn what it’s like living in Bariloche, Argentina as a digital nomad. ...READ MORE -
10 Best New Orleans Festivals (2022 Update)
10 Best New Orleans Festivals (2022 Update)New Orleans is a city with many names, including the Crescent City, NOLA, and the Big Easy. Another nickname that deserv...READ MORE -
Where To Stay in New Orleans (Neighborhood Guide)
Where To Stay in New Orleans (Neighborhood Guide)With so much going on here, it’s important to figure out where to stay in New Orleans. Early birds and light sleep...READ MORE -
10 Best Hotels On Bourbon Street, New Orleans
10 Best Hotels On Bourbon Street, New OrleansFamous for its festivals, live music, cuisine, and raucous nightlife, New Orleans just might be the most fun city in the...READ MORE -
Cost Of Living in Thailand: A Guide for Digital Nomads
Cost Of Living in Thailand: A Guide for Digital NomadsYou may find it hard to believe, but the cost of living in Thailand for an entire month (including everything) is most l...READ MORE -
15 Best Beaches in Greece (Islands and Mainland)
15 Best Beaches in Greece (Islands and Mainland)Want to know which are the best beaches in Greece? Then look no further. The Greek islands and the mainland are home to...READ MORE -
Weekend in New Hampshire: The Perfect Summer Itinerary
Weekend in New Hampshire: The Perfect Summer ItineraryThe northeast of the United States is an unexpectedly beautiful region, among the better-kept secrets of this part of th...READ MORE -
Weekend in Austin: The Perfect 2 Day Itinerary
Weekend in Austin: The Perfect 2 Day ItineraryIf you’re headed to the Texas capital on a quick getaway, read on for the perfect itinerary for a weekend in Austi...READ MORE -
5 Best Arizona Road Trip Attractions and Stops
5 Best Arizona Road Trip Attractions and StopsArizona is home to three national parks and some of the most breathtaking rock formations in North America. The 48th sta...READ MORE -
Travelling China and Mongolia: Differences Between The Countries
Travelling China and Mongolia: Differences Between The CountriesAfter living in China and teaching English for a little over a year, we learned a lot about Chinese customs and ways of...READ MORE -
Backpacking Colombia: The Ultimate Travel Guide
Backpacking Colombia: The Ultimate Travel GuideBackpacking Colombia was once considered dangerous, but its international stigma is slowly wearing off and more and more...READ MORE -
12 Top Safety Tips For a South African Road Trip
12 Top Safety Tips For a South African Road TripRenting a car in South Africa is a must! Not only does it end up being the cheaper option than local transport, but it g...READ MORE -
Photographing Morocco: Tips on Etiquette and Technique
Photographing Morocco: Tips on Etiquette and TechniqueMorocco is a beautiful and extremely photogenic country. Bustling markets, ancient medinas and incredible landscapes all...READ MORE -
5 Remote Backpacking Destinations For This Year
5 Remote Backpacking Destinations For This YearDue to ever-growing cities and the parasitic urbanization of natural lands, it can be hard to find remote backpacking de...READ MORE -
Top 10 Reasons to Travel to Cuba
Top 10 Reasons to Travel to CubaAsk most travellers what they would like to see on a trip to Cuba and they’ll likely mention little more than...READ MORE
